Topic: PC WITH NO ICONS

[ihatepcprobs]

Hey,
Im new to this so im sorry if this is in the wrong section but...

Rite at the min im at my mates but at my pc at home i have a problem.
When i turn on my pc the xp loads up but i have no icons on my desktop.

I have rebooted my pc but it does it everytime.

Can anyone help me out?

Cheers

[Sandra]

Hi and welcome aboard.
Have you logged in as you normally do, not as a different account which may not have anything on their desktop ?
If you have logged on as normal is the task bar showing at the bottom or has that gone too ?

[ihatepcprobs]

hi i dont log in i have no password. but im getting nothing at all just the background...i have no task bar or licons or anything.

What is wrong?  

Cheers

[Sandra]

Can you get into safe mode?
It doesnt sound as if its booting fully into windows, it may be hanging on the grahpics card drivers.
Have you added or removed anything since it last worked ?
Which screens actually come up before you just get the blue, empty one ?

[Adept]

Hi ihatepcprobs

It sounds like Explorer isn't loading correctly. What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt and Del all together on your keyboard? If you are running Windows XP, it should start Task Manager.

Click File and New Task and then enter explorer into the Open box on the Create New Task dialog box that appears. Press OK.

This should bring your desktop back, possibly allowing you to find out what is wrong.

[ihatepcprobs]

thankyou i will try when i get home

[joudi]

Hi Ihatepcprob,

Your problem is simple:

Go to the Desktop and rignt cilck. You have there the option "reorganize Icones". That will take you to other options. Take the one called "Display Icones on desktop".

That's it.

[Sandra]

That would be ok if he had his taskbar showing but that isnt showing either Joudi, so I think it is a little more than that but it was a good suggestion as I hadnt noticed that option before  

[joudi]

That's no problem Sandra. It seems that someone else was playing in his computer and changed some configuration.

He can make a taskbar appear by going to "Control Panel", then, "Taskbar and Menu", click on it, Tick "Lock taskbar" (which is the first option, and untick "Hide automatically the taskbar" (which is the second option). Also he can keep ticked the third option "keep taskbar over the other windows".

I hope the problem not more complicated than that.

[Simon]

I would agree with Joudi on this one.  This has cropped up before.

[ketamininja]

I'm placing my bet on Explorer not loading...
Try adepts method of starting Explorer (your shell).

Its possible that a virus or webpage altered a line in the registry/ini file.